4.30.2010

Review: A Week of Firsts

• first duathlon• first ride in the rain (downpour during said duathlon)• 5k PR during first leg of duathlon• first 50 mile ride• highest mileage week on my bike (so far)• highest mileage month on my bike (so far)

This week I logged 93.4 bike miles and will have logged over 27 miles on-foot after tomorrow's planned 4 mile easy run. Yesterday I ran an easy half-marathon distance training run...last long run before the Riverbank Run 25k a week from tomorrow. Today I "recovered" by biking for 50.3 miles--my first 50 mile ride.

It was a really nice ride. I rode the first nearly 24 miles with 4 JDRF team members, then turned around and headed back to my car...with a bit of noodling to hit the magic 50 mile marker. The other riders rode a full century...and really tried to talk me into it. I probably could have been persuaded, were I not staring down a goal race in 8 days. A race that I am hoping to PR. Perhaps next month will see my first century ride. I'm not impatient...I know I'll do at least one in 2010.

Tuesday night I rode nearly 25 miles with a local women's cycling group. That was really nice, too. After the ride we headed to a bar & grill for pizza and beer. Great way to finish a great ride. I immediately felt right at home with the 5 other women who attended the ride (4 of whom met at the bar afterwards). I'm really looking forward to making that ride a regular Tues. night event.

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